by Chris LaMountain | Jul 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
The ancient Greek κῠ́ων (kuon), meaning “dog,” serves as a strong image in the cultural and medical depiction of women and their reproductive organs. Coming off of The Wandering Womb post, we have already investigated the animalistic construction of the...
by Chris LaMountain | Jul 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
Of all the medical constructions of the female body, the wandering womb stands out as one of the most distant from the contemporary understanding of female anatomy. With this, it should be analyzed significantly, as it is through these historical cracks of...
by Kimani Isaac | Jul 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
This post will be short, but I’m on my way to the desert! I will return to my French classes in a week, but right now I’m on my way to Marrakech. It’s the city I’ve heard the most about since I’ve come here. But honestly I’m more...
by Hannah Whitehouse | Jul 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Today’s my last day in Athens. I’m downright sad that I have to leave this place so soon, but I can easily say that I will be back sometime in the near future. No questions asked. As cliché as it sounds, there are not words to fully sum up my experience with El...
by Chris LaMountain | Jul 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Without surgery or X-ray imaging, bodily fluids became the ancient physician’s primary insight into the body. With this, it’s understandable why the wetness of the body was used as one of the principle physes to differentiate feminine from masculine....
by Chris LaMountain | Jul 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Perhaps the first hoop to jump through while attempting to understand the cultural conception of the “female” body in Ancient Greece is to understand their approach to gender. According to Laqueur, in his Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to...
